Australia holds its nose for its third rancid bloom of a rare corpse plant in 3 months
A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such ...
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This Rare Plant Smells Horrible, but People Can’t Wait to Get a Whiff
At the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, a so-called corpse flower bloomed for the first time on Friday. The smell was not unlike rotting flesh. Jonathan Ritzman compared the scent of the corpse flower to ...
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A blooming plant that reeks of gym socks and rotting garbage has thousands lining up for a whiff
Tall, pointed and smelly, the corpse flower is scientifically known as amorphophallus titanum - or bunga bangkai in Indonesia, where the plants are found in the Sumatran rainforest. But to fans of ...
USA Today16d
What's rare, reeks like dirty feet and rotting garbage − and New Yorkers want a whiff?
This plant, known as a corpse flower, came to the Brooklyn garden in 2018 as a seedling from Malaysia and began blooming there for the first time on Friday. BBG gardener Chris Sprindis first ...
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Corpse flower blooms at Canberra's Australian National Botanic Gardens for the first time
An Amorphophallus titanum or titan arum, commonly known as the corpse flower, has bloomed at the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra for the first time. The 15-year-old plant started ...
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Corpse flower: Plant with 'deadly' stench pulls huge crowds for rare bloom in Sydney
People have queued for hours at a Sydney greenhouse to get a whiff of the infamous corpse flower, as it bloomed for the first time in years. The sizeable flower, officially called the ...
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A plant in the ‘corpse flower’ family is blooming in Brooklyn: What does it smell like?
The Amorphophallus gigas, a cousin to the infamous “corpse flower,” is beginning to bloom at the Aquatic House in the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. “I think this is an equally impressive ...